The State of Victoria has caught up with the rest of Australia and changed the licensing law to allow All-Ages live music events.

Following four days of world music and conferences, the Australian World Music Expo is over for another year.

The 24th annual Bluesfest was named Australia’s Best Regional Event at the 2013 Australian Event Awards in Sydney last night.

Eminem could hold for a third week with his “Marshall Mathers LP 2”, with his closest competition is coming from X-Factor 2013 winner Dami Im with her self-titled album or the new swing album from Robbie Williams “Swings Both Ways”.

The Rolling Stones have officially confirmed that they will perform in Adelaide, Australia in March.

The South By Southwest (SXSW) music conference and festival in Austin, Texas has revealed its second line-up announcement with Australia’s Gossling and Oh Mercy set to perform next March.

The Big Day Out has upsized its line-up with Primus, The Drones and Bliss N Eso added to the bill.

Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena has won a Billboard Touring Award for the recent Pink tour.

Eminem has had a convincing win over Lady Gaga with the rapper’s second week sales beating the popstar's first week sales by almost 25%.

Alicia Keys will perform at the 27th Annual ARIA Awards in Sydney on December 1.

The second and final day of the Face The Music conference gave us something to look forward to next year, following a hugely successful sixth outing.

The seventh album for 2013 to notch up two or more weeks occurs this week, as Eminem holds at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart with “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”.

Eminem and Rihanna score their second No.1 duet this week as “The Monster” climbs a spot to No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, giving both of them their eighth chart-topping single here, the song also achieving Gold (●) in sales.

In its sixth year, Face The Music has brought together music industry leaders to discuss ideas and the issues affecting the industry.

John Butler Trio have released their first music in four years with a brand new song titled ‘Only One’.

U2 is under new management according to Billboard.

Warner Music put $36,144.37 into the bank of the Breast Cancer Council and other charities with the In Their Shoes charity auction.

The Eminem ‘The Marshall Mathers LP2’ vs Arcade Fire ‘Reflektor’ battle on the Australian album chart this week turned into a one-horse race with Eminem ending up selling three times more albums than Arcade Fire.

X-Factor runner-up Taylor Henderson debuts at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week with his debut original single “Borrow My Heart”, which achieves Gold (●) in sales in its first week of release.

The eighth studio album for Eminem entitled “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” becomes his seventh No.1 album in Australia.

The Beatles, that up and coming new boy band out of England, lead this weeks new music releases.

For the past two days the WAM music conference and festival has focused the Australian music industry on Perth and today the city opens up for all music fans.

Perth’s Tame Impala were the major winners of the WA Music Awards scooping up four gongs for Group of the Year, Single of the Year, Albert/EP of the Year and Music Video of the Year.

The Western Australian Festival music conference kicked off today in Perth with a keynote address from former Magic Dirt singer Adalita and tomorrow respected concert promoter Michael Chugg will tell his tales.

The controversial Redfern Now has been nominated for three APRA Screen Music Awards.

Robert Rigby, one of Australia’s most successful independent record label operators, has been appointed Executive Manager of The Voice for Universal Music Australia.

Arcade Fire’s double album ‘Reflektor’ will easily take the top spot on the US chart from Katy Perry this week although with smaller numbers than Katy’s debut.

Katy Perry’s fourth album “Prism” becomes the thirty-first No.1 album for 2013 and her second consecutive chart-topping album, as seventy number one albums ago she debuted at the top with “Teenage Dream” (6-Sept-2010) (TW-42).

X-Factor 2013 winner Dami Im takes her debut original single “Alive” straight into ARIA Singles Chart at number one this week, achieving Gold (●) in sales in its first four days of sale.

Australian supergroup The Dead Daisies have loaded up at number one on the Planet Rock airplay chart in the UK with ‘Lock ‘N’ Load’.